Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
NEW DELHI: Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday spelt out the do's and don'ts for both Delhi and Haryana by asking them to ensure strict compliance of the prescribed norms against polluting the Yamuna. From suggestions to assistance, the Minister has offered both States a chance to clean up …
New Delhi: Minister of environment and forests Jairam Ramesh is expected to write to the chief ministers of Delhi and Haryana, asking them to take immediate action against those found polluting the Yamuna. The minister had earlier written to Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in December last year, threatening …
Piloting an ETS will enable the Ministry of Environment & Forests to cap total pollution emissions in select areas and increase regulatory transparency and accountability. The pilot emissions trading scheme will be rolled out as a randomized-controlled trial to enable rigorous evaluation. Such an evaluation will provide gold-standard evidence on …
The Environment Ministry has lifted its January-2010 moratorium on environmental clearance for new projects and expansion in eight critically polluted areas, including Ludhiana in Punjab. Based on recommendations received from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the moratorium has been lifted in Ludhiana (Punjab), Varanasi-Mirzapur (UP), Agra (UP), Bhavnagar (Gujarat), …
Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh will chair a meeting with the Delhi and Haryana Chief Ministers next week to discuss outstanding issues between the two States over the Yamuna and related squabbles over who is guilty of polluting its waters. The Minister has also sought a status report from the …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF),currently under attack for being allegedly too rigid in providing clearances to projects, has lifted an earlier moratorium in this regard on eight more critically polluted areas. However, the MoEF has indicated that the respective state governments and pollution control boards need to adhere …
Sifting through Delhi’s municipal rubbish every day, Anwarul Shaikh and Rupa Begum often find broken CFL bulbs mixed in kitchen and other domestic waste. The compact fluorescent lamps have replaced incandescent bulbs in garbage mounds in the past couple of years, Rupa said, picking a few up. The glass tube …
A blanket of smog envelopes Kuarmunda and Bonai subdivisions of Odisha’s Sundargarh district every morning. Area residents attribute it to emissions from sponge iron factories nearby that switch off their emission control devices—electrostatic precipitators (ESPs)—at night. The reason these factories get away with such offences is weak rules and weaker …
THERE is a good chance the leafy vegetables that make it to your salad bowls were irrigated using untreated or partially treated sewage. Each day an estimated 20,000 million litres of sewage is used for irrigation—five times what Delhi generates each day—but more than half of it is untreated. Faecal …
Bangalore is in a better position compared to other parts of the State when it comes to implementation of an action plan on bio-medical waste management. The action plan was submitted by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) to the Lok Adalat a couple of months ago. The action …
Unlike the cannot-be-allowed stand of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board on the copper smelting unit of Sterlite Industries at Tuticorin, the Central Pollution Control Board seems to take a different view. During a hearing on the issue in the Supreme Court today, the report of the CPCB on the …
A report by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has expressed concern over air pollution in Pune due to dust and vehicle emissions, and has called for raising the standards of road infrastructure and public transport in the city. The report,
THE Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has fumbled in answering a critical question on carbonyl and methane emissions from vehicle exhausts: which pollutes less—petrol, diesel, CNG or LPG? The pollution watchdog’s study on emissions provides a database that could be used to give a policy message. It declared CNG to …
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has fumbled in answering a critical question on carbonyl and methane emissions from vehicle exhausts: which pollutes less
RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI In a surprise move the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and ICAT has come up with a study that claims diesel is less polluting than CNG. The study, titled
Gokul Chandrasekar | ENS A method called burn and churn is being proposed by the CPCB to deal with the safe disposal of biomedical waste in the country THE Central Pollution Control Board proposes to implement new technologies to efficiently handle the biomedical waste produced by hospitals across the country.
CSE comments on CPCB's recently released Study of Exhaust Gases from Different Fuel-based Vehicles for Carbonyls and Methane Emissions. Urges CPCB to recall and urgently review this study to make it more scientifically tenable. CPCB has made a valuable effort to generate emissions data on unregulated toxic emissions as well …
G. Krishnakumar Part of efforts to save heavily polluted sites in the country Experts from National Geophysical Research Institute to prepare rehabilitation plan Unchecked discharge of chemical effluents from industrial units results in pollution KOCHI: The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) will soon prepare a comprehensive plan for the restoration …
NEW DELHI: Pollution is rising to "unhealthy levels" in the Indian capital, and this can cause several health problems, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said Monday. The levels of both particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide were up. The official air quality index of the Central Pollution Control Board …
Multiplicity of regulatory authorities has not been carefully considered by the government while proposing to set up the National Environment Assessment and Monitoring Authority (NEAMA). For example, it is not difficult to visualise a situation where in a city we might have a district/regional office of State Pollution Control Board …
